Prints fade, albums fall apart, and the one person who knows who’s who won’t always be here to tell you. We restore every photo, date and name it, and send it all home in an engraved chest.
R5 000 deposit holds your place. Fully refundable until we engrave and send your chest. The balance is due only after you’ve approved your First Look.Once they’re gone, they’re gone.
Engraved with your family’s name.
Put a sticker on the favourites. We include the stickers. See what can go in.
By insured courier. We photograph every item and send you the list within 48 hours.
10 of your photos, restored, within 5 working days. Love them, then we do the rest. If you don’t, we send everything back, you don’t owe the balance, and you keep your chest.
Originals returned, with restored prints and a memory stick.
Because of passwords and privacy, we don’t take devices.
We may add these in future.
Drag the line across to compare. Colour comes back, and tears, creases and stains are mended. How we restore.
Memory Chest was created by two of South Africa’s leading post-production specialists. Post-production is a craft of refinement and quality control, and we bring the same care to every photo.
Some photos are too blurry to sharpen. When the detail isn’t in the original, we repair the colour and damage and leave the face as it is, rather than guess. We’ll tell you which ones.
WhatsApp us a photo of one damaged photo. We’ll send it back restored within 48 hours, free. No catch.
You don’t. Fill the chest. We scan everything and restore your favourites.
Insured in transit by courier, every item photographed on arrival, and every original returned. On Heirloom, we come to the house and pack it with them.
Name one face per person and we find the rest.
The Reveal Kit turns it into a moment. See What comes home.
Share it. One payment link, and brothers, sisters and cousins can each chip in.
Photos nobody has seen in years, back in the family’s hands. Everything arrives in the chest.
Solid wood, engraved with your family name. Yours to keep.
Every chestEvery photo returned. Albums come back whole.
Every chestA new print of every restored photo, laid in the chest.
Every chestA Memory Chest 128 GB stick with every photo, dated and named. Plus a download link that works for three months.
Every chestA 3-minute slideshow set to music, a reveal card, and story-prompt cards to ask the family’s storytellers.
Family and HeirloomA bound photo book of your family’s story.
Heirloom onlyThe best photo in the chest, framed and ready to hang.
Heirloom onlyA memory stick for up to four sibling households.
Heirloom onlyWe visit the family’s storyteller (a mother, father, grandparent, aunt or uncle, whoever knows the stories) and pack the chest with them. We record them naming the people and telling the stories,.
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For a shoebox or a couple of albums.
R15 000For a family’s worth of albums, home before the day.
R25 000For the whole family story, told by the family’s storyteller.
R40 000We confirm a firm quote once we see what’s in your chest. You’ll never pay more than your tier unless you add photos.
Every chest includes the engraved chest, the memory stick, a three-month download link and insured courier collection.
If you don’t love your first 10 restored photos, we send everything back, insured, you don’t owe the balance, and you keep your chest.
A person checks every restored face against the original. If one doesn’t look like the person in the photo, we redo it, or give you the straight repair instead.
Tell us your date when you reserve. We’ll check it against your chest and our queue, and confirm in writing whether we can make it. If we miss a date we’ve confirmed, we refund R5 000.
For our first families: your price locked for future add-ons, first access to the filmed family interview when it launches, and a free framed print. In return, we ask for a short testimonial and permission to show your before-and-afters.
R5 000 deposit holds your place. Fully refundable until we engrave and send your chest. It comes off your final quote. The balance is due only after you’ve approved your First Look.
Buying with your brothers and sisters? Split it, and everyone pays their share from one link.
Printed photos of any size, colour or black and white, photo albums (including the sticky kind), school and studio portraits, and Polaroids. If photos won’t come out of an album safely, we scan them in place. Letters, certificates and documents are coming soon. We don’t take slides, negatives, video tapes, audio cassettes, CDs or DVDs today, though we may in future. Digital files may come later, on a USB stick or drive. We don’t take phones, tablets, computers or other devices, because of passwords and privacy. See the full list.
No. Put everything in. We include stickers, so if there are photos you love most, put a sticker on them and we’ll restore those first. If you don’t mark any, we choose the best of them for you.
That’s what the First Look is for. You see 10 restored photos before we do the rest. If you don’t love them, we send everything back, insured, you don’t owe the balance, and you keep your chest.
We send you a short form for names and birth years, so tell us what you know. We use that to date each photo as closely as we can and to name the faces you’ve identified. If no one knows, we leave it blank rather than guess.
We visit the family’s storyteller at home (in Gauteng and Cape Town): a mother, father, grandparent, aunt or uncle, whoever knows the stories. We pack the chest with them and record them naming the people and telling the stories. We record only with their consent, handle it under POPIA, and keep it with the family’s archive. It’s included in Heirloom and can be added to Keepsake or Family.
On a Memory Chest 128 GB memory stick, packed in the chest. We also email a download link that works for three months, so you can copy everything to your computer and phone. There’s no online library to log in to.
We handle your photos and personal information in line with POPIA. We use them only to restore your photos, we never share or sell them, and you can ask us to delete our copies at any time. Our privacy policy has the details.
R5 000 deposit holds your place. Fully refundable until we engrave and send your chest. After that, it covers the chest and courier, and it comes off your final quote. We confirm a firm quote once we’ve seen what’s in the chest, and the balance is due only after you’ve approved your First Look. If you don’t love your First Look, we send everything back, you don’t owe the balance, and you keep your chest.